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A rare form with white margined leaves. It isn't very tough so I am a little worried. This may be the Japanese cultivar 'Fuiri Keaki', Trees and Shrubs online says: "The first introduction to the west of a variegated Zelkova serrata may have been Pl 1236254, grown at the Glenn Dale Plant Introduction Station in Maryland (USA) in 1959 as ‘Fuiri Keaki’ (‘variegated Keyaki’; Hatch 2021–2022). The latinate form of the western sale name, ‘Variegata’, would only seem to be valid if it was published before this year. Confusion readily arises with ‘Goshiki’, introduced from Japan in 1978 by Barry Yinger (Jacobson 1996), but goshiki means ‘five-coloured’ in Japanese and is best reserved for plants with a much-broken variegation which is pinkish in new leaves then becomes a mix of yellows and whites. ‘Fuiri Keyaki’ by contrast has clear silvery variegation which is not sharp-edged but is mostly concentrated around the margin of the leaf, making this one of the showiest of variegated trees. Mark Weathington (in the comments to ‘plant of the day’ for 9th September at Weathington 2013) observes that ‘Variegata’, in contrast to ‘Goshiki’ is a ‘somewhat weak grower’ in the climate of North Carolina, and no mature examples have been seen by the author in the UK. ‘Green Mansions’ seems to be another sale name for ‘Fuiri Keyaki’ (Klyn Nurseries 2023); in the climate of Ohio at least, the green part of the leaf turns orange-red in autumn and the white part turns pinkish." |
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| 21st June 2017 | ||
